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Thank you to both you. kirsten powers, katy past like to you as well. thank you. martha: we're back to the top story of the day and the devastating storms across the midwest, another hard-hit spot, frankfurt, illinois, just outside of chicago. anita padilla, fox affiliate is there live. anita, what does it look like on the ground there? >> reporter: nothing like the devastation we saw in washington, illinois, but nonetheless people did feel and were very away. down the way there is scattered debris in a road called la grange road. that is shut down. you have see debris on the farmland. pull ou...

Haiti has a new president, a former pop star. >> that's right. he was known as sweet mickey, but now he is haiti's 56th president, he'll spend his first week in office this upcoming week. in the inaugural speech, he said this is a new haiti open for business now. he has the great challenges ahead of him with the big question remaining, what is he going to do for the country with over 7,000 people homeless after the quake. so that's what we are going to be watching for into next week. >> you know what, it seems like he's a pop star, wyclef jean had a chance. >> e the did at the time, yeah. >> t...

their habitats into residential areas. officials warn that large gators won't think twice about grabbing a human. let's go to the st. landry parish of crop springs. ed, what do you know? >> reporter: well, don, we are in one of those neighborhoods that got the mandatory evacuation orders a few hours ago. as you look around here, this is a small subdivision right on the edge of the river. and authorities came through here literally going door to door, the national guard and sheriff's deputies are urging people to leave. and in this subdivision made up of 20 homes, almost everyone has ...

Iraq, you don't think with the benefit of hindsight that the kind of devastation we saw in the aftermath of the iraq war could possibly have been avoided if we had let the people of iraq do what the people of egypt have done. >> we encouraged the people of iraq to stand up against saddam and he slaughtered tens of thousands of people. the chinese authorities slaughtered them -- if the regime is sufficiently brutal, this kind of power doesn't work. you have to give mubarak and the egyptian army a lot of credit that they weren't willing to shed the blood of their own people. >> you see the white...

Political prisoners, to give people time to form parties but makes it clear that there's going to be elections. i think the momentum for change the large. >> when you compare that's what happened here to what pd in iraq, you don't think with the benefit of hindsight that the kind of devastation we saw in the aftermath of the iraq war could possibly have been avoided if we had let the people of iraq do what the people of egypt have done. >> we encouraged the people of iraq to stand up against saddam and he slaughtered tens of thousands of people. the chinese authorities slaughtered them -- if t...